Gen Z men want young women to obey – it’s made me terrified for my boy ...Middle East

Public service announcement: it is not 1 April. Just making that crystal-clear, because the results of a global study – to mark International Women’s Day no less! – have been revealed, and they seem like a joke. Although a joke is supposed to be funny, isn’t it? The findings by Ipsos and King’s College London are the opposite. The real fool, whatever month it is, is anybody who thought we were even close to achieving gender equality.

It turns out that 31 per cent of Gen Z men are under the impression a wife should always obey her husband. Another reminder: it is 2026, not 1950. I can’t decide what’s more shocking and disappointing – that these blokes think this at all, or that they were happy to admit it out loud, presumably unselfconsciously. One third of them believe that a husband should have the final word on important decisions. This is as depressing as it is insulting, not least because have you seen some of the decisions men make lately?

I find these study results infuriating and upsetting. So sad for human beings and society generally, and for the young girls I know personally, destined to grow up having to deal with a world where 24 per cent of Gen Z men (born between 1997 and 2012) think that a woman should not appear too independent or self-sufficient. Where 59 per cent say that they’re expected to do too much to support gender equality and 57 per cent agree that in promoting gender equality we’re now discriminating against men.

A 100 per cent of that almost makes steam come out of my ears. I not only hoped young women’s future would be better than this, I was deluded enough to trust it definitely would be. Obviously I’m aware of Andrew Tate, incels, the red pill, but I thought this was a small minority, and fast shrinking. That the kind of man who would feel threatened and angry at the record number of women currently in education and the workplace would be a pariah, rather than find himself among like-minded friends.

As the mother of a tween boy, born in 2014 so just two years later than Gen Z, I’m genuinely devastated by this research. This outlook goes against everything he has been brought up to believe, and the idea that he might start spouting this tripe as he grows up is unthinkable.

I’ve been ranting at him about misogyny since he was a baby (because kids love that). When he was eight, he looked up from the card he was lovingly drawing for his dad and said, “Every day is Father’s Day though really, because of the patriarchy. Every day is men’s day.” I’ve never been prouder.

Now 11, he often pulls me up on my own internalised misogyny. Recently he told me that his form had been taught that afternoon by the school’s head of science. I asked what he’d been like, compared with their usual teacher. “She was great,” he corrected me, pointedly. Touché. Also, noted.

The opinions men have about women in this study are appalling enough, but it seems they’re pretty messed up about men, too. A dispiriting 21 per cent of Gen Z men believe that blokes who take part in caregiving for children are less masculine than those who do not. Also, 30 per cent of them think they shouldn’t say “I love you” to friends, and 43 per cent agree that “young men should try to be physically tough, even if they’re not naturally big”. Ugh, ugh, ugh!

This feels like going back in time. Positively prehistoric. Antiquated, outdated. In fashion, they say all clothes come back into style eventually, but who knew that would apply to people’s views, too. Are we doing this across the board then? Will we be trying to cure illnesses with leeches again any minute now?

One last thing, and by thing, of course I mean complete and utter affront to all of womankind. A staggering 21 per cent of Gen Z men say a “real woman” should never initiate sex. Calm down, chaps – with these attitudes, I shouldn’t think you’ll have to worry about that too much.

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